Feed and litter carrier.



- H. L. FERRIS. FEED AND LITTER CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1909.

I 924,154. Patented June 8,1909.

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Ill-MINI H. L. FBRRIS. FEED AND LITTER CARRIER.-

, APPLIGATION FILED M AR. 18, 1909. 924,154, Patented June 8, 1909. 1 2SHEETS-SHEET 2. I O3 To alt whom it may: concern? RiLEEnBIs;oFHKRvARDfiLLrNoIs; Assierio-R mOHUNTQHELM, rnnnrsja oourhnr,I.

' DFJHKBYARDFILLINOIS;YA oonronirrron OF ILLINOIS;

l FEED AivD Lrr'rEn onnnrriia.

Application filed was, 1909. S'eria1 1* To. 484,319.

Be it known that I, HENnrLl FEnm g l'a citizen of" the United States,residingat cation.

My invention q useful improvements in feeda'nd litter can Harvard, inthe county of Mclienry and State of Illinois, have. invented newtanduseful Improvements in; Feed and Litter Carriers, of which. the'following'is. a specifi-1 relates to certain new and riers, and isfully described and eirplained in the specification and'shoivn'in theaccompanying drawings, inWhich: ,Figurel i an elevation of a portion ofthe. frame and one of the hangers of my 1111 proved device ;'Fig; 2' isan end view'of the.

parts ShOWILJiIl Fig. 1-; Fig. 3 is atop plan of the track, such as isused in connection; with my improved device jFig.- 4 is a section in theline 4 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 isja transverse section inthe line 5 of Fig.4", and Fig. \6 is a side elevation of one of thesWitch-castings usedwith myimproved device.v 1

The subject-.matter of my present appli" cation is an improvement uponthe device shown, described and claimedv in my Patent No. 862,460,granted {Xugust 6th,' -1 907,"the device being as a Whole, substantiallyidentical with that shown in saidv atent. Forthis reason I-have' notdeeme itnecessary to illustrate all the details .of construction of thecarrier, illustratirigfon the-contrary,

' merits lie and-the partslwhichnecessarily cooperate, therewith inoperation.

merely those portions wherein my improve- Referring 4 to "the drawings-Prk, A -are two-lengths ofround flexible track running at an angle toeachother and crossing as set forth in said "patent"; These tracks are .con-

nected byan' arc-shaped tr-ack 'B ofangl j iron with a vertical web'.and. a horizontal.

'- web nvhichg-lies on the outside of the zcurve;

the" vertical- 'web being brought -at its 1 ends somewhat above thelevelof t 1e tracks. A;

it is just inside said tfiaclrs :so

p etr-ical switch' castings C 'aref-p dedat-"the endsf-o'f the g'quadrant haped track B; each easting comprising a vertical Web 0,riveted, or otherwise secured,

to the. outside of the vertical web of the quadrant-shaped angle-irontrack, av hori- -'zonta1 Web 0 grooved-on its lOXifiGljilCG to receivethe corresponding track A or A, as the case may be, an inclined beadrunning "Specificatibn of Letters Patent.

practically atangent 3i toits Patented r nes, 1909.-

.dowriwardi'roin the verticalwebi.andfoi er hanging 'thcadjacent sectionof. track Am A ,-'so' as to guide-the pulleys-cf the reed anal." V

littercarrierirom the track tothe quadrantj land air-upwardly slantnfgcare at theieiid of the horizontal Web c ,ythe purpose fofr C are.providedupon the quadrant shaped track for the purpose of engaging andholding the same to the tracks A .AH'

identical with the corresponding parts shown in the patent referred to,and it will also be possible in the details these par-ts.

D is a frame adapted afr'eed and litter carrier; the frame, tub andaccessory devices adapted for locking and re able construction.

7 observed thatas far as the present applica tron 1s concerned,-considerable variation is of construction of;

tio'os ppbaa ate- "which will presently be" described-.- Q.

65 o, v l 9: beenoted that the parts already s'etjforth are leasing. thetub being of:anyusual or d'esire Inasmuch as the'tubfand its manner ofsuspension form'nei art of-the present invention, they havenot een il'lus-flBO trated herein, as-any mechanic" skilled inithiscart Wil1understand exactl yu howlsuch parts i are assembled. Athoroughly"'satisfactory manner of assembling sueh parts is-;i11us'-- lBrackets are secured 'tosaid'frame at the upper corners thereof,rn'which brackets are sw1veled} hanger-frames E, the "particular-Inanner nwluch the swiyel-j'o'int -1simade be"- mg nnmaterial. The hanger'frarnes carry the usual way.

Each of the fltanceb etween the .end offeach flattened 7' bracket B a n.It will be seen that my present constructrated in the patent- "abovereferred "tor pulleys E adapted to ride-upon .the'traolr in;

I h anger-frames Beani s: in the i position illustrated anangular'ly"dis )o'sed,i :flattened pin F inovable' through "a ollowbracket provided to receive it andfnorniallyf spring-pressed upwardortowardthe p ulley rin bymeans of aspringflthe normal dis 5 'ies tionis practically identical with that of my prior patent, exceptingfor thefact that the pin which holds thepulley' upon the-track is madeflattened, and carriesa lug or tooth shortthat a very undesirable tlltmgmotion adapted to enga e with the notehiin the bracket, upon which, thehanger-frame is awiveled. 'Dhenotch is so posrtioned 'f't'hatthiaengagement will take p we only when the pulleys are in directalinenient with the container-frame. The construction operates in thesame way as does that of my prior patent in that sense that whenthecarrier reaches the curve, the pulley rims up on flange of thesWit'ch-casting,.and the pin is depressed b enga 'ement with theinclined ear c of t e said switch casting running therefrom onto thehorizontal web 0, thence to the horizontal web of the quadrant-shapedpassing around curves they are free to turn."

'Inthe use of feed and litter-carriers in the pastit has been necessary'eitherto make a rigid connection between the hangers and the containerframe, or a permanently SWIV- eled connection. In the first case in,order to permitthe device to pass around a curve at all it has beennecessary to place thg? two lleys close together, in which case the suport of the carrier upon the track has been so has been im artedyto thecarrier when in nabvement. ln order, to make the carriers readilypassaround curves without this unfortunate oscillatory movement, the pulleyshave been in manyyinstances separated and made permanently swiveling asin the device of my prior patent, but in such'cases the ulleys have hada tendency to get out of. inc and bind the comparatively smalltrackbetween the flanges of their grooves, thereby. making the movementof the carrier unnecessarily difficult. This construction has beengenerall deemed to be the lesser of the two evils an the constructionwith the two pulleys separated at a considerable distance andpermanently swiveled to the frame has been generally preferred. Withmy'present construction, however, I obtain the advantages of both formsof construction with the disadvantages of neither. I Diiring the great,bulk of its movement, the carrier has its hanger-framesermanentlylocked against movement, an the pulleys are therefore held in goperalinementand do not bind on thetrac When a curve is reached, however,the hanger-frames are promptly and automatically unlocked so that thecurve can readily be passed in spite of the great sepa-' ration betweenthe hangers. As a result,

therefore, this eonstruction is far so" erior to any-constructionheretoforegene'ra y used.v

Itis perfectly obvious that the present feature of ,inyention is ca ableof consider- ,vtariation and-that W e; it is shown in theform of animprovement upon the specific form illustrated in my atent alreadymentioned, still it is applica le to CM'IIQXS other than t e one thereinshown, described and claimed. ltherefore have no intention of limitingmyself as to the scope of my invention except as is pointed out in theclaims which follow, t I What I claim aanew, and desire to secureby'Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a frame, hangerframes having swiveled connectiontherewith, pulleys carriedlby the hanger-frames, and a coking-deviceconstructed and arranged to secure the hanger fjrames against rotationupon straig'htllengths of track and to permit rotation upon curvedtrack.

2. The combination with a main frame, hangervframes pivoted'there'to andulleys jonrnaled upon the hanger-frames, of ocking' devices constructedand arranged to secure the hanger-frames a ainst rotation undernormalconditions an means upon the track for releasing said lockingme'ans as the hangers run upon curyes in'the track.-

3. The combination with atrack having a 'curvei of a main frame, hangerframes swive d thereto, pulleys journaled in the hanger-frames andadapted torun u on the track, locking-devices upon theangerframesadapted normally to prevent relative rotation between thehangerframes and main-frame and stationary cam devices upon the trackconstructed and arranged to disengage the locking-devices when thepulleys run'u ponthe curve. t

4. he combination with a track, a pulley adapted to run upon the trackand a frame supporting'the pulley from one side thereof extending belowthe track, of-a movable pin upon the oppositeside. of the frame and aapted to extend -upward into close proximity with the pnlle so as'toprevent the passage of'the track etween the pulley and the pinwhen'the pin is in its advanced positron, said pin havin aportion-adaptedto engage parts carried y "said frame when said a pm isin its advanced-position.

5'. Thecoinbination with attack, a mainframe, a pulley adapted to runupon the track and a hanger-frame sup orting the pulley frgm one s dethereof an extending elow tra k and having a swiveled connection with hemain-frame, of a movable pin upon the opposite side of the hangerrameand adapted to extend'into close proximity with the pulley so astorevent the passage of the track between sai ulley and pin when the pinis in its advance position,

said pin having a portion adapted to engage ei'mveen the hangel rframeand 'main frame. then the'pi'n, is in'itsadvanced-poition. W '6. Theeombination with two main tracks, B -pulleys adap'ted to run upon saidtracks, a

main frame, ,hanger-framessupporting t he ;p111}1eys f r0m,;. 0ne; sidethereof and having" veled connectiens withthemain frame,

ite'sid'e bhereof and adj ajcent to the pul ,fihQ Seidpins being movableand-'80 p0- oiled-that;

' and'means Wherebyssaid pin is retract slcarr iedbyuthehanger-frames'on the op- 1 in: theiradv'arie'ed os i'-' 6n",' the'ypyevent-fthe pass 9 he I t Ia (sk betweeli the p illleys andthe pins,

